Culture

We’ll talk with Tracy Slater about leaving America to live across the Pacific with the man she fell in love with, which she writes about in her memoir, The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World.

We’ll talk about the line between news and entertainment – and if the nightly news is still relevant – with Charles Ponce de Leon, author of That’s the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America.

Stephen Witt researched the pirates, moguls and computer programmers who digitized the musical landscape for How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy.